Full Title: End-to-End GHG Reporting of Logistics Operations Guidance
Author(s): Smart Freight Centre and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publisher(s): Smart Freight Centre and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publication Date: January 21, 2023
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Description (excerpt):
Action on logistics emissions is needed but the transparency challenge needs to be resolved first. To limit global warming and reach the Paris Agreement climate targets, supply chains need to be decarbonized. Logistics operations are a central part of all supply chains and play a crucial role in achieving the necessary emissions reductions across industries. Companies are therefore under increasing pressure to calculate, monitor, and report their emissions from logistics operations.
However, companies face an emissions transparency challenge: a lack of granular, verifiable, and consistent emissions data from logistics operations. While standards like the Global Logistics Emissions Council (GLEC) Framework and forthcoming ISO 14083 provide guidance on how to calculate emissions from logistics operations, many businesses face data quality and availability difficulties, particularly for complex logistics operations. This Guidance therefore seeks to enable organizations to understand greenhouse gas (GHG) logistics emissions incurred from supplier to end customer, end-to-end, by increasing the consistency
and quality of data, clarifying how and when to use primary data and creating performance indicators that businesses can use in their decision-making. This Guidance establishes core principles for logistics emissions disclosures.